Living inFamously slightly larger (part 2)

“Live, from the center of da earf.”

…Ahem, sorry Outkast reference.

Well kids, I’ve had an interesting week. How about everybody else?

I didn’t have much time to get around to working on Cole, but when I did I was able to put in a great deal of work. We stopped last week while I was still working on finishing the lineart inside of illustrator. I hadn’t even touched Photoshop line-editing and coloring yet. It was all still a bit rough around the edges, literally.

Well, I decided to play around with the lines a deal more by editing the various line-weights by selecting the major parts since, my design process usually involves larger body parts editable for easy line access. Once I was finished with that, I exported it into a PSD file at around 500 dpi. I like my work “XBOX huge.” It allows me to get all up in there nice and deep. Yeah, I said it. Once I exported the lineart, I popped it into Photoshop and began cleaning up some of the lines, erasing various extra lines that I didn’t want inside of the piece and trimming down lines that were essentially creating tangents that were obscuring the overall image. The result was below:

If you look closely, there were some subtle changes to the original lineart as suggested. I gave Cole a grimmace instead of the weaker smug appearance. I also placed the line-art onto a blue background in the preparation for adding flat colors. I used the blue background because that blue would be the main color I wouldn’t be using for anything else and incase I leave holes in the image, the blue allows any of them to been seen ensuring that I fill all if not most of the line-art with color. I’ve been doing it for years, and it keeps things tidy.

After I laid the lines down, it was time to lay down the flat colors. Since most of the colors Cole was wearing were either CG images or heavily post-processed imagery, I found it a tad bit difficult to get the colors of Cole’s outfit. I figure I did a well enough job.

Once I laid the flat colors down, I had to take a break from it for a while. A decent amount of work goes into popping the colors into place, and believe me the Paint Bucket DOES NOT work as well as one would imagine. Upon my return I began to insert highlights and shadows via the Photoshop pen-tool. The pen-tool within Photoshop work pretty much the same way as the Illustrator pen does. Except its in Photoshop! Whodathunkit!

The images above show the different statuses of the project when I was simply adding cel-shaded highlights and shadows to it via the aforementioned pen-tool. Some of the shadows I simply drew in by stylus and airbrush. My main concern was placing the right amount of lighting without drowing the image colors out or making things look outlandish.

Once I finished the highlights and shadows. The fun part arrived. That really wasn’t all that fun. Wait, I take that back it wasn’t all that bad at all. I decided to add some modest lightning effects around Cole’s arms and waist in the post process. Since I don’t really have the process images for that part since it was on the fly, I was actually very afraid to try it at first, I’ve got the final images down below for what I churned out.

One image I added a blue filter in front of everything, and I sort of enjoyed how it turned out. The image below is the image unfiltered. I would upload larger images so you could attempt to appreciate the detail that went into what I did, however WordPress hates freedom, and promotes terrorism and doesn’t accept files of a specific size at the moment, I’ll probably end up offlinking the files to my site after a while in case anyone was interested.

Sorry to keep this so short kids, but Daddy General’s got business to attend to. I’ll catch you kids next week!

Out.

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Living inFamously slightly larger (part 2)

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